Leading UK independent producer of screen performance: Hamlet ('09, '18), Macbeth ('01, '10), Julius Caesar ('12, '17). Tweets by John Wyver
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28 Apr 2024
Breaking my X silence to urge my friends and follows to read Ketan Joshi - and then to join us in the blue place
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18 Apr 2024
Brilliant ending to the first day of the Television By Design conference - May Davis talking about her design work on Landscapers. I forgot to take pictures of @Illuminations opening paper on early TV design but that was fascinating too. I have learned a lot today
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26 Feb 2024
Occasional reminder that I profoundly object to views of the owner of this site, and what he has facilitated it becoming, and so I'm now only posting regularly in the blue place as @illuminations.bsky.social
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23 Jan 2024
Image fees - more good news: Tate will start removing Creative Commons licences from their non-copyright artworks online. This means that potentially thousands of images of some of the greatest British art will finally be clearly in the public domain, and free to re-use. 1/3
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10 Jan 2024
#OTD 10th Jan 1938 - Alice Delysia, French actress and singer who made her career in English musical theatre, appeared in 'Starlight', also on 2nd Feb, 13th June & 17th June 1938.
She appeared on a Baird 30-line transmission in Dec 1932.
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29 Dec 2023
🚨 Image fees and UK museums - a breakthrough moment. The system is collapsing. There is now no reason to pay fees for historic artworks (2D) in most cases.
The UK's art history tax is over. Scholars, the public *and museums* will be better off. A 🧵
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🧚 🎶 🧛♀️ Sleeping Beauty and vampires, a real treat this Christmas Day. This gothic romance version by @SirMattBourne's @New_Adventures has sumptuous sets and costumes, and masterly storytelling.
Watch Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty on BBC Two and @BBCiPlayer.
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19 Dec 2023
What an awful, cynical and frankly tragic abrogation of responsibility at this time.
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11 Dec 2023
The Sunday dozen for Monday morning
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... and with that, I think we're done here.For all that I've loved being here, and having learned so much, M*sk's latest antics, mean I just can't bring myself to post here any more...
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11 Dec 2023
Follow us to the blue place (codes available) or have us drop out of your lives.
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10 Dec 2023
The Sunday dozen
A selection of just twelve articles, downloads, broadcasts and podcasts that in the past week I found surprising and engaging and challenging.
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10 Dec 2023
Important too - this is such a key issue
10 Dec 2023
The new ruling confirms what we believed since Infopaq. They mystery is that people have continued to pay fees when they could in many cases have used easily available images freely available on the internet. The issue is only legal in part; it also highlights... 1/n
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9 Dec 2023
This is really excellent news
9 Dec 2023
Image Fees - there's an important development after a recent Court of Appeal ruling. It's Good News for historians and art historians (and art lovers generally).
Long thread. >
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9 Dec 2023
It's been a long time since I've compiled 'Sunday links', but I've decided to return to the practice, under a new title, and this week published on the Illuminations blog a day early
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7 Dec 2023
Lots to look forward to from @BFI in 2024, highlights of which have just been announced -- but notably not a single mention of anything to do with television
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6 Dec 2023
So great - with a killer punch line
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4 Dec 2023
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 1000
ALT Paddington in The Searchers (1956)
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4 Dec 2023
Just lovely from @KateWyver
‘What do we clean the costumes with? Vodka!’ Inside Britain’s panto powerhouse theguardian.com/stage/2023/d…
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